1.  What is religion?
 Religion as belief/creedal religion
 Religion as a way of living

2.  Culture vs. Creed in Western thought
 Modern exclusion/restriction of religion to special realm
 Secularization of culture
 Limitations of this binary disjunction
  religion is distorted
  culture is unanalyzed fully
 
3.  An alternative model of religion
 Religion as creedal belief
 Religion as denominational participation
 Relgion as ultimate concern [Tillich on 'faith']
 
4.  Components of ultimate concern
 Faith
 Language/symbols/myth
 Community
 Re-contextualization of religion in life

5.  Religion as a Cultural System [Geertz hypothesis]
 Religion as an extended system of symbols
 Religion as belief and practise
 Relation between religion and culture
 "Framework of general ideas"

6.  Rural Religion a ultimate concern and cultural system
 Core of basic creedal ideas
 Extended system of values and ethics
 Network of interconnected institutions/culture
 Religion as the 'framework of general ideas' for rural culture